Belief in eternity can clarify your values and renew your hope.

It is vital to know that faith is not just an action of your brain; it's an investment of your life.

Because doubt drives us to know and understand, it has the power to lead you to the One who knows and understands everything. Your capacity to doubt can drive you to God, but not always. This is why we need to talk about doubt, because this God-given capacity, wrongly functioning, can be disastrous.

The doubt of wonderment is a normal part of a life of faith, and it's spiritually healthy when it drives you to bring your confusion to the One who has no confusion.

Faith is living in light of what God has said, resting in what he has done, and entrusting the future to his care.

Living in this present world is designed by God to produce three things in me — longing, readiness, and hope.

putting your entire existence in the hands of One whom you cannot see, touch, or hear is far from natural. This is why faith is only ever a gift of divine grace.

Faith means you take God at his word, you never let yourself think that you're smarter than him, and you live inside his boundaries.

Hope for the believer is not a dream of what could be, but a confident expectation of a guaranteed result that shapes his life.

Faith is a deep-seated belief in the existence of God that radically alters the way you live your life. Now, here's the rub. Faith isn't natural for us. Biblical faith is counterintuitive and countercultural. So we even need God's grace to have faith to believe in the existence of the One whose grace we so desperately need. And the grace is yours for the asking again today.

if you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never

Live in hope because paradise is surely coming, and stop asking this fallen world to be the paradise it will never be.